Talent partner for blue-collar companies

“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”

Jim Collins

Yellowstone Local is the all-in-one talent partner for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and construction companies. Programmatic ads, passive outreach, AI-powered ATS, and expert recruiters. One monthly service. Unlimited hires.

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If you're hiring, you already know

Indeed is broken. Staffing is expensive. Word-of-mouth dried up.

You didn't get into this business to be a recruiter. But here you are. Burning evenings on resumes. Training people who quit. Paying placement fees you can't justify.

01 / No Applicants

Your job sits on Indeed for three weeks. Crickets.

Your foreman is doing the work of two people. You've called every guy you know. The phone isn't ringing.

02 / Bad Applicants

Half ghost the interview. The other half can't pass a drug test.

You're not picky. You just want someone who shows up, takes pride in the work, and doesn't quit in 90 days.

03 / High Turnover

You train them up. Then watch them leave for $1 more an hour.

Every exit costs you $15K in lost productivity. The guys still on the truck are pulling double duty.

04 / Constant Rehire

Your best tech just quit. You're back at zero.

You can't grow when every win gets eaten by a loss. The trucks don't run if the seats don't get filled.

You don't have a recruiting problem. You have a system problem.

Six services. One partner.

Every lever you need to hire well, run by people who already know how.

We don't just post jobs. We run a full talent function for you. Best-in-class technology, expert recruiters, and a process built for blue-collar shops.

Programmatic Job Ads

Performance-based ads across 300+ job sites. You only pay for real applicants in your service area.

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Passive Candidate Outreach

The 70% of qualified workers who aren't on Indeed. We reach them with a real outbound recruiting motion.

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ATS with AI

Our hiring platform with AI screening built in. Mobile-first for owners and field managers in the bay.

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Done-For-You Expert Recruiters

Senior recruiters who specialize in the trades. They run your pipeline so your office team doesn't have to.

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Employer Branding

Career sites, employer profiles, recruiting creative and employee stories that make your offer clear and credible.

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Recruiting Playbooks

The ideal candidate, offer, scorecard, ads, screening and interview process for every position. We build it, run it with you and leave it with your team.

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See How It All Connects

All six services bundled into one monthly service. See the full picture of how Yellowstone Local runs your hiring.

Services overview →
The platform

One screen. Every hire moving forward.

Your jobs, your pipeline, every candidate scored and ranked, all in one place. Built for owners and service managers who want to know what's happening without clicking through five tools.

Yellowstone LocalHiring workspace
Illustrative workspace

Your open roles

Demo

Choose a role to see a five-star candidate profile.

From outreach to interview

See where a candidate came from and why they fit the role.

Candidates

3 in review
OutboundQualified

Your strongest match

TRTaylor Reed★★★★★8 years experienceOutbound candidate
Morgan EllisPhone screen in progressIllustrative candidate
Interview readyIllustrative profile
TR

Taylor Reed

Journeyman Plumber · Austin, TX

★★★★★5-star role fit

An experienced service plumber who combines strong diagnostics with clear communication and pride in a clean, complete job.

Source
Outbound candidate
Experience
8 years
Credential
Journeyman plumbing license
Target pay
$34 to $40 / hour
Residential serviceDrain diagnosticsRepair & replacement
See example screening notes
  • Explains the diagnosis and repair options in plain language.
  • Comfortable with service calls, water heaters and drain diagnostics.
  • Takes ownership of the customer experience through final cleanup.

Reached through targeted outbound outreach to an experienced service professional.

Illustrative demo. Candidate names, qualifications, pay targets, scores and pipeline counts are fictional examples.

AI Profile Scoring

Every candidate scored against your role on skills, experience, geography, and reliability signals. Top of stack in seconds.

Live Pipeline View

Sourcing, New, Engaged, Review. Every stage at a glance. Drag to move. Notes from your phone.

SMS & Email in One Place

Texts and emails to candidates logged on the candidate record. No more "what did we tell them last week?"

Calendar Sync

Two-way sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple. Candidates self-book interviews. No more email tag.

How it works

Four steps. No jargon. Built for operators.

We don't reinvent the wheel. We run the wheel every day, in your market, for the roles you need.

01

Onboard & Map Roles

We map every position you'll need to fill in the next 12 months by trade, level, and territory. No guessing.

02

Build Brand & Launch

We build your employer brand and launch programmatic ads plus a passive outreach motion in your local market.

03

Pre-Screen Every Lead

Our recruiters interview every applicant on the phone. You only see the ones worth taking off the truck for.

04

Hand Off & Tune

Interview-ready candidates land in your inbox weekly. We tune the system as we learn what closes in your market.

7-14 days
From kickoff to first qualified candidates in your inbox.
Weekly
Pre-screened candidate hand-offs and a 15-min strategy call.
Monthly
Pipeline review, market data, and roles-up-next planning.
Real clients. Documented results.

Good people. Real business impact.

Electrical contractors, home-service teams and manufacturers. Here is what the recruiting work produced, with the dates and context behind each number.

93
Petri Electric hires
Account review · July 2026
40+
Bacon reported hires
Historical results · August 2026
15
Western Utility Telecom hires
~4.5 months · June 2025 review
7
Sirius recorded hires
July 14 to August 14, 2026
Petri Electric employees in blue company shirts at an outdoor team gathering
CLIENT STORY / 01
Commercial & industrial electrical
Richardson, Texas

Petri Electric

93 hires. A reported cost below $1,000 per hire.

A long-running electrical recruiting partnership, measured in hires and hiring cost, with continued work to sharpen candidate fit.

93Account hires
<$1,000Reported cost per hire
July 2026Account review
Read the case study
Illuminated utility pole and electrical infrastructure at sunset, featured by Western Utility Telecom.
CLIENT STORY / 02
Steel manufacturing & fabrication
Salem, Oregon

Western Utility Telecom

15 hires in about 4.5 months. Better screening made the difference.

Welder and drafter recruiting moved from sorting every application to a process with a dedicated person qualifying candidates.

15Hires
~4.5 moReviewed period
~$745Reported cost per hire
Read the case study
Two Bacon technicians in red company shirts standing beside a branded service van
CLIENT STORY / 03
Plumbing, HVAC & electrical
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

Bacon Plumbing Heating Air Electric

40+ reported hires across a growing home-service team.

Recruiting support across field trades, dispatch and office roles, backed by a high-volume screening and interview process.

40+Reported hires
~4,000Candidates screened
~400Interviews managed
Read the case study

Six client stories. Different trades. A clear record of the work.

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What clients say
Client conversation
“The two that y'all got me, they're exactly what I need.”
Sarah Moore
Scott Electric
Two journeyman hires at the first check-inRead Scott Electric’s story
01 / 04

Historical client snapshots from account reviews and recruiting records. Reporting periods differ by client; each case study explains its figures.

Client work across the country

Explore our work
across the United States.

Explore hundreds of client companies across 48 states. Open a case study, see recorded hiring activity, or search our wider client directory by company, trade or location.

598 mapped locations48 states represented10 case studies & client stories

631 client entries, with 598 mapped locations across 48 states

Results & client storiesPublished hiring activityClient directory

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United States
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Pins show approximate company bases or recorded recruiting locations, rather than street addresses. Client directory records are from October 1, 2026 and may include historical relationships. An entry does not mean a role is open today. Companies without reliable coordinates remain searchable without a pin. Published hiring links were checked October 22, 2026. City reference data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), aggregated to approximate city locations. Browse detailed case studies →

Browse a sample of client companies

Explore 50 companies from our directory and documented case studies. Historical client records are dated October 1, 2026; case-study periods vary. The interactive map includes all 631 entries. Inclusion in this directory does not mean a company is currently hiring.

Read our documented client results.

What is hiring really costing you?

The numbers most owners don't see.

Plug in your shop's numbers. We'll show you what your current hiring system costs once you count ad spend plus the revenue you lose while seats sit empty. Most shops are surprised.

Your shop

Rough numbers are fine. We'll model precisely on a call.

Your annual hiring cost (estimated)
$0

What you're spending on ads, plus the revenue you're losing while seats sit empty.

Annual ad spend $0
Lost revenue from empty seats $0
Estimated annual savings with us $0
See the full math on a call →

Estimates based on industry averages and Yellowstone Local client cohort data (38% lower cost-per-applicant, 71% faster time-to-hire). Your specific numbers will vary based on market, role mix, and pay rates.

Why this works when nothing else has

We're not Indeed. We're not staffing. We're your talent partner.

Most owners try all three before they call us. Here's the honest breakdown.

 
Indeed / Job Boards
Staffing Agency
DIY / In-House
Yellowstone Local
Cost model
Pay-per-click. Mostly junk traffic.
20 to 25% placement fee per hire.
Recruiter salary plus your time.
Flat monthly. Unlimited hires.
Candidate quality
You filter the firehose.
Decent, but not yours.
Depends who's looking.
Pre-screened for skill, fit, and reliability.
Volume & consistency
Spiky. Some weeks zero.
Deal-by-deal.
Feast or famine.
Weekly. Predictable. Year-round.
Who owns the pipeline
Indeed.
The agency.
You, when you have time.
You own it. Always.
Time to first hire
3 to 6 weeks (if lucky).
3 to 8 weeks.
Months. Honestly.
Often under 14 days.
Compare the full cost of recruiting

One flat fee. Unlimited hires.

Hiring on your own costs more than a job ad. Add up the software, your time or a recruiter’s time, advertising spend and any agency fees. Compare the complete cost with one coordinated recruiting service.

Hiring on your own

One illustrative in-house setup.

$8,017/month

Example with one full-time recruiting role, a paid ATS and a chosen advertising budget.

01Paid ATS software$189/month
Breezy HR Startup at its published monthly-billing price, before tax or add-ons.
02Recruiting time$6,328/month
A full-time salary example using the BLS human resources specialist benchmark of $75,940 per year, divided by 12 and rounded. Payroll taxes and benefits are extra. If you do the work yourself, use the value of your own time.
03Indeed & other job ads$1,500/30 days
A selected example budget of $50 per day for 30 days. This is a planning assumption; Indeed’s actual budgets vary by job and market.
04Optional agency placement$14,700/hire
Separate from the monthly total. Example: DAVRON’s published 21% Traditional fee applied to an assumed $70,000 annual salary. Your agency’s rate and terms may differ.
05Employer brand & hiring processIn the time budget
This example assumes the recruiting role also handles job ads, screening questions and workflows. Outside creative or consulting work would be additional.
Recurring monthly example$189 + $6,328 + $1,500 = $8,017

The optional per-hire agency fee is not included in this monthly total. You still own the tools, the process and every handoff.

See the assumptions and sources

US dollars. Sources checked October 22, 2026. Monthly amounts are rounded; payroll taxes, benefits and optional fees are excluded.

Monthly Service

Yellowstone Local Talent Partner

Built for blue-collar shops doing $1M to $20M who need a real, repeatable hiring system.

  • Programmatic job ads across 300+ sites
  • Passive candidate outreach motion
  • Our hiring platform with AI screening
  • Dedicated expert recruiting team
  • Employer brand build and career page
  • Phone-screened candidates only
  • Weekly hand-off plus monthly strategy call
  • Cancel or pause any month
Get pricing on a call →

We don't post pricing publicly because the right number depends on your market, roles, and volume. We're transparent about it on the call. We don't pressure.

Use your own costs to compare. Your software, staffing, ad budget and any agency fees depend on your business. We’ll walk through the Yellowstone Local scope and pricing on a call.

Stop chasing. Start choosing.

Your trucks shouldn't sit idle because your bench is empty.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll look at your market, your roles, and your goals, then tell you exactly what your hiring system should look like, what it would cost, and whether we're a fit. No pitch deck. No pressure.

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